Category Archives: Making Your Own Spinners

How To Build a Double Cowgirl Musky Inline Spinner

If you’re a hardcore Musky angler, you will undoubtedly want to learn How To Build a Double Cowgirl Musky Inline Spinner.

Double Cowgirl Musky Inline Spinners catch some monster fish. And building them yourself will save you a ton of cash over the years. You also get the option of making custom colors and configurations by making your own baits.

Building these spinners isn’t difficult. But sometimes it can be intimidating to get started. The video below will walk you through the entire process, from tying the skirt to assembling and finishing the bait.

You can get started by clamping a small piece of coiled wire in your vise and creating your own skirt with tinsel and thread. Creating the skirt is actually the most time-consuming part of the whole process.

Once the skirt has been tied, it’s time to start assembling the rest of the parts to build your inline musky spinner.

The Skirt is Finished. Now What?

Now we’ll take a treble hook, a wire shaft, a piece of heat shrink tubing, 2 magnum Colorado spinner blades (size 10), a solid brass lure body (approximately 3/8 oz.), clevises, hollow metal beads, a split ring and a lead egg sinker.

Now it’s time to assemble all of these items.

The first thing you’ll do is add the treble hook to the wire shaft and then secure it with a piece of heat shrink tubing.

Once the heat shrink tubing has been slid into place, heated and then allowed to cool, the rest of the process involves sliding various components onto the wire shaft to create the actual spinner assembly.

Probably the trickiest part is making sure the two clevises are installed correctly so the two blades work in conjunction with each other. So be sure to pay close attention when doing that part of the assembly!

The final step is to bend the end of the wire into a loop where your line will be tied on. This involves making a couple of bends and then twisting the wire around the wire shaft. When you’re finished with the twists, the excess wire can be trimmed off with wire cutters.

Now, go and catch a big musky!

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If you’d like to learn how to make spinnerbaits for bass, click here.

And, as always, if you need any kind of lure-making supplies, be sure to visit our website, at http://lurepartsonline.com

How to Tie Your Own Walleye Spinner Rigs

If you fish for Walleye, you’ll want to learn How to Tie Your Own Walleye Spinner Rigs. Walleye are one of the most sought after gamefish species in many regions of the world.

Walleye are known for their great taste on the table and their prowess as a predator fish.

As with most gamefish, there are many ways to catch Walleye. Some people prefer to use live bait, while others like artificial lures.

Another method combines the two, using an artificial lure tipped with live bait. The spinner rig featured in this article is one such lure. It comprises spinner blades and plastic beads, while allowing for worms, night crawlers or minnows to be used for added attraction.

In today’s video, an avid Walleye angler demonstrates How to Tie Your Own Walleye Spinner Rigs. Making your own rigs not only saves you cash, but it also means you can create the custom colors and combinations you want. You’re no longer limited by what’s available on the shelves of your local tackle shop. Instead, your imagination is the only limit on what you can make.

The process of tying Your Own Walleye Spinner Rigs is pretty simple and straight forward. The trickiest part is probably tying the knots, but that’s demonstrated really well in the video below.

What’s even better is that there are no tools required to make these, with the exception of a pair of nail clippers. So you won’t need to go digging through your toolbox to find any special tools.

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Make a Simple Inline Spinner From a Kit

If you make a simple inline spinner from a kit, you’ve just made one of the best fish catchers known to man! And because you made it from a kit, you didn’t have to shop around for lots of different parts.

Lure making kits are the cheapest and easiest way to start making your own lures. When you buy a lure making kit, you’re getting everything you need to make a fair number of lures, all in one box.

We all know that catching a fish on a lure you made yourself is one of the most satisfying aspects of fishing. Catching fish is fun. But catching fish on homemade lures is truly exciting in a way that can’t be explained.

If you were to set out to make your own inline spinners without buying a kit, you’d have to buy several different components, in various sizes and colors just to get started. That can be a bit intimidating when you’re first starting out.

But if you want to make a simple inline spinner from a kit, all of the preliminary homework has been done for you. Lure making kits are great because they include everything you need, without you having to do a lot of research and leg work tracking down the various lure parts.

All you need to do is look through your kit and pick out the parts you want to use for your new spinner. Once you do that, the rest is just a matter of assembling those parts and then going out and catching some fish!

Below you’ll find a great video tutorial that shows you each step needed to make a simple inline spinner from a kit. The tutorial is clear and concise. Best of all, it takes less than 5 minutes from start to finish!

So go ahead and grab your kit, along with a pair of pliers and wire cutters, and you’re ready to go! And, as always, you’ll find a list of needed items below the video.

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How to Make a Flying C Spinner Fishing Lure

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How to Make a Flying C Spinner Fishing Lure

The Flying C Spinner is a fishing lure that’s been around for a very long time and has accounted for the catch of hundreds of thousands of fish!

As with just about any lure, you can buy a Flying C spinner lure at retail stores or from various retailers online. But you can also make them yourself at home, saving you a ton of money and giving you the opportunity to tweak and fine tune the lure. This allows you to make it look the way you want it to look, instead of being stuck with what the factory says it should look like.

So today’s blog post will show you how to make a flying c spinner fishing lure yourself, opening the doors for you to catch fish on a lure you made, and saving you some cash in the process 🙂

The featured video today was put together by Paul Adams and, as always, Paul goes into great detail when it comes to creating the lure from items you make and shape yourself. Keep in mind, though, that at the bottom of this post, we will give you links where you can find most of the items used to make this lure, but without having to shape or form it all yourself. This saves you a ton of time and gives you a finished lure that looks as good, if not better than the retail versions.

This is a beautiful example of a flying c spinner made using a factory-made blade and hair or bucktail for a lure dressing.

Paul shows you how to bend and shape your own spinner blade, bend and shape the wire that holds everything together. He then shows us how to assemble everything properly to make a lure that works well and will attract fish. He even mentions items that you can use to create your lure that aren’t typically used in lure making, such as heat shrink tubing.

Using these alternative materials works fine if you want to spend the time cutting and shaping them. But if you prefer to save time and create a lure with a more “polished” look, please refer to our list of items below, where you can buy professionally manufactured components that allow you to make a flying c spinner fishing lure simply by assembling the parts.

So grab a notepad and a pencil and get ready to take notes as Paul walks you through the lure-making process in the video immediately below.

Items used for this project:

Spinner Blades
Stainless Steel Wire
Spinner Hooks
Clevises
Hook Dressings
Colored Tubing
Lure Beads

You can check out Paul’s blog by Clicking Here.

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And, as always, if you need any kind of lure-making supplies, be sure to visit our website, at http://lurepartsonline.com

Make Trolling Spinners for Salmon and Steelhead

Learn How to Make Trolling Spinners for Salmon and Steelhead!

How to make trolling spinners for salmon and steelhead

In our latest post we’ll be showing you how to make your own trolling spinners for Salmon and Steelhead, for about $2 each.

It’s a pretty-well-known fact that making your own lures, no matter what type or style, is a great way to save money, as well as allowing you to customize your lures to be exactly what you want them to be, instead of having to settle for factory-made fare. The combination of components and color choices is endless, allowing you to tweak your bait in just about every aspect.

Inline spinners are no exception. Whether you make them to cast for trout in streams, rivers and lakes, or to troll in big waters for salmon and steelhead, the same holds true. Buying the components individually and assembling them yourself is not only fun, but you also get the satisfaction of knowing you’re catching fish on lures you made with your own hands 🙂

As with our previous post, we will be making on inline spinner. But this one will be a bit different than the last one in the fact that this spinner will be used for trolling, instead of casting.

How to make trolling spinners for salmon and steelhead

This type of spinner will look somewhat similar in its design, but will require some different components to make it more rugged, for the bigger fish it will be catching. Also, because it’s trolled and not being cast, it will be assembled a bit differently.

Big Salmon and Steelhead can be brutes and you want to make sure you build spinners that will be up to the task, not bending or breaking while under the pressure of a massive fish, as it surges or jumps.

As with the last post, we will be including a tutorial video at the end, to show you the exact steps needed to build these spinners with the least amount of difficulty. Tyler walks you through a few new tips that make it easier than if you were trying to figure it out yourself.

Oh, and in addition to a list of the necessary parts, we will also be giving you a list of the tools needed to make these lures. This way you’re equipped with everything you need before you sit down and start putting them together.

Tyler does a great job of letting you know which colors work best for him, but keep in mind that you can adjust the colors for your own lures and test some new color schemes, based on your own personal preferences or the water conditions where you live 🙂

Here are the individual part numbers and links to each part, for your convenience:

Tools needed:
Needle Nose Pliers – narrow nose is preferred
Split Ring Pliers – Item #4151
Scissors (for cutting the surgical tubing)
Small bowl of water
Liquid Dish Soap (to be used as a lubricant for sliding the tubing over some of the other lure components)

If you’d like to visit Tyler’s YouTube channel, you can do so here: Frugal Fisherman